We just released the new offline scanner which will now also scan the drive information from any Storwize product.
Direct Link to BVQ offline scanner
http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/3IBdAQ
With this we can make more accurate statements about the...

We just released the new BVQ V3.3.3 with great enhancements in performance and usage of the performance analysis methods.
We are in progress to translate the release notes to English. If you want to download V3.3.3 now you can do this from the German...

The BVQ development team is currently working on the new BVQ dashboard functionality. This new dashboard should become available in 1H2015.
The dashboard is great for monitoring, you can open several dashboards and put them onto different screens, this...

In short Special circumstances can cause an overload of the SVC/Storwize upper cache. The impact of this situation can be very dramatic. In this example, the customer environment was near to a complete standstill. It is sometimes amazing how quickly...

BVQV3.3.2 has toleration support for V7.4 which means that everything is supported without the new V7.4 features encryption and child pools.
These will be supported with the upcoming BVQ V3.4
Download here
http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/x4Ft...

The BVQ story ...
The storage challenge
Even a small storage environment may be complex. Questions about cost optimization or availability are hard to answer because the knowledge about actual and future...

Child pools in SAN Volume Controller 7.4 are now fully supported by Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2.4 fix pack 1. IBM Storwize devices are also supported in the fix pack. You must install the fix pack to make full use of this new feature.
To...

It is a long time ago, that I added an analysis video to the wiki.
The following is a very nice situation where we had to find the reason for a very high load on a node port.
You can find the video here:
Link to Video
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We are very proud to announce the general availability of BVQ Version 3.3.
BVQ Version 3.3 is the first IBM SVC and Storwize monitoring and analysis solution with full support of the IBM SVC and Storwize Family Software V7.3.x.
IBM SVC and Storwize...

This is a a new performance analysis whitepaper in the technical section of BVQWIKI
The unbalanced VDisk mirror problem
Many performance issues are caused by an unbalanced situation in the two sides of VDisk mirrors.
One finds, that a...

There are two major categories of problems usually reported to the technical support:
Ongoing problems, including problems that happen again and again and problems that can be recreated.
One-time occurrences where a so called root cause...

Storwize Family Software V7.3 has implemented many changes, specially in the cache architecture, Easy Tier and re-striping of storage pools. The changes target to enhance overall system performance. The experience is good but sometimes little things can cause...

Next week we will first time show BVQ 3.3 Beta at the German SVC user group day in Ehningen.
BVQ version 3.3 supports the SVC / Storwize version 7.3 completely, including the new cache architecture.
Further improvements are removable window, with which...

BVQ version 3.2 supports the new SVC / Storwize code versions 7.3.x
The BVQ scanner from older versions is not able to work with the new Storwize code.
New BVQ code Version 3.2
If you upgrade from BVQ...

Another new feature of the latest BVQ offline scanner allows to scan more than one systems at once.
This is especially helpful when you plan to use BVQ Copy Services Package to analyze Metro Mirror or Global Mirror connected systems.
A profile is...

What:
Accelerate with ATS: SAN Volume Controller Version 7.3 and 2145-DH8 Hardware
Abstract: IBM turns the crank, yet again, on SAN Volume Controller code and SVC hardware. Join us to learn about the exciting new features in SVC code level 7.3...

I just finished an performance bottleneck analysis for an 8 nmode cluster with several 100 TB and found one thing which I think might be a commonly made mistake in many of the bigger SVC environments. This picture shows the MDisk performance of SSD storage...

IBMEdge 2014 Day 2
The ATS team members are the talent behind the IBM Accelerate ATS Webinar series:
Day 2 starts w/ General Session: Delivering the Process of the Future: Made with IBM
Here are your ATS Talent Sessions to watch for Day 2...

Read this ...
... if you haven´t planned a budget for storage analysis at the moment.
... if you just want to know what is happening in your SVC or Storwize!
... if you want to know more about the technical limits of your SVC or Storwize.
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it's so easy ! We have already carried out the first analysis, in which we have used the BVQ offline scanner.
A big advantage was :
No need to install anything!
The process is so simple:
1 The offline scanner is downloaded from...